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Subject(s)

• Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Kanz al-daqāʼiq—Commentaries—15th century [Browse]
• Islamic law—15th century [Browse]
• Hanafites—15th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary of Kanz al-daqāʼiq, a treatise on Ḥanafī fiqh by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī, d. 710/1310.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from modern inscription on fol. 1a (later added fly-leaf).
• Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small thick naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible ; a few orange-peach leaves. Marginal annotations. Inscriptions and short texts on fol. 2a-3a. Table of contents on fol. 3a. Fol. 1 is a later added fly-leaf. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. The leaves are numbered in black ink using Arabic numerals on the upper right corner of each verso. Stained with water; mildew.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "326". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 226/2".
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed by Mūsá ibn Bakr in the middle of Shaʻbān 892 [Aug. 1487] under the dictation of Muḥammad Miskīn (fol. 223a).
• Basmallah: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين
• Incipit: الحمد هو الوصف بالجميل الاختيارى سواء تعلق بالفضايل او بالفواضل واللام للجنس والمراد مطلق المسمّى
• Explicit: سهام الزوج بالخارج بقى سهمان للام وسهم للعم فيقسم باقى المال بينهما ثلاثا والحمد لله الذى بنعمته يتم الصالحات وصلّى الله على محمد وآله صاحب الخيرات تم قرات المتن بحضرة والدى وشيخى واستادى ومولاى ... شمس الملة والدين محمد المسكين لا زالت شموس اقباله ساطعة لامعة الى يوم الدين امين يا رب العالمين واعلى درجاته فى اعلى عليين مقام الانبياء والمرسلين بحق محمد واله اجمعين ما ان مدحت محمدا للبرية شامل تم الكتاب

Binding note

Green cloth over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1069
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 197 (3.Cmt. 6)

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

تبيين الحقائق

Title in GAL

• Tabyīn al-ḥaqāʼiq

OCLC

191886655

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